Konsystorskie kwerendy Józefa Lekszyckiego w okresie kulturkampfu

The activity of the Prussian administration in the period of the Kulturkampf in Wielkopolska resulted among others in deposition from office of the Poznań-Gniezno archbishop, Mieczysław Ledóchowski. The estate and archives of both dioceses were in June 1874 placed in the charge of Prussian commissioners. The records - the Poznań and Gniezno consistories included - were subjected to sequestration until 1886 (the records from Gniezno were transferred to Poznań). Access to the files was granted only to Prussian officials, among them Józef Lekszycki (1818-1899), an eminent expert on Wielkopolska municipal and land registers, and genealogy. In the years 1884-1885 he inspected the sequestered records of the Poznań consistory, and gathered the results of this work in the still surviving Repertorium ueber das Archiv des Posener Erzbischo/licher General-Consistorium. While inspecting the records, J. Lekszycki took down information (which he called documenta) on the Poznań church of St. Martin for the years 1252-1798, and compiled the excerpts in a manuscript volume that survives until today titled Documenta ad Ecclesiam parochialem S. Martini. spectantia, completed in September 1888.